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Queen Victoria
by Strachey, Lytton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Twentieth Printing 1930. Copyright 1921. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition No jacket. Eight illustration plates. Navy cloth, w/ gilt titles that are rubbed. Clean and unmarked with slight wear to corners. Tight and solid sewn binding. Spine cloth lightly rumpled. Prev owner name on endpaper. Flyleaves and title page foxed. Frontis:the royal family. Pages clean and unmarked; foxing on edges of illustration plates. Penciled short note about the book on rear endpaper. A detailed biography of Queen Victoria, Queen on England for 63 years, 1837-1901. 434 pages with Bibliography and Index. 5.6 x 8.25 inches. Harcourt Brace Publishers, New York, 1930.
Synopsis
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013405
- Title
- Queen Victoria
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN ROYALTY, ENGLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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